Chapter 1620

As soon as we were halfway, we were stopped by a group of beggars. These beggars are almost all skinny women. Their clothes are old and worn-out. Some of them even wear vertical striped prison clothes. There is a huge yellow hexagon star on their chest, which means they are Jewish.

Nina and they obviously knew these people. After chatting with one of the women in a black scarf, they took some bags of flour and barley from the car and gave them. They even gave them a sack of apples.

When we got back on the road, I asked Nina curiously, "where do these people come from? I think you know them?"

"The survivors of the maydanek concentration camp are all Jews," Nina said with a gloomy expression. "Because there is no food, they often come to the city to beg."

"The camp survivors?" After listening to Nina's name of the camp, I frowned and thought for a moment, but I didn't remember it at all. All I remember was Auschwitz. I shook my head and asked, "since they have been rescued by our army, why don't they go to their hometown?"

"It's not just the Jews in Poland, but also the Jews from Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Belgium and Greece." "These places are still occupied by the Germans. Even if they go back, they can't escape the fate of being sent to the death camp again," she said

When I heard ulannova talking about the death camp, I looked at her in surprise and said in my heart, how could she know this? Nina saw my face and said to me, "Rita, you may not know that there are seven gas chambers in this concentration camp. Every time the Jews get off the train, a camp official announces to the newcomers that they have arrived at a transit camp, where they will shower and disinfect their clothes, and then set off for different labor camps.

After the announcement, the Jews were taken to the square near the railway station. German guards separate men from women, with men on one side and children on the other. Women and children undressed in a wooden room, and women's hair was cut off. Then they were forced to leave the plank house naked and enter the narrow, fenced passage, which is the camouflaged road to the gas chamber.

After the victims are in the gas room, the German guards will close the door, and then the machine will start to run, and the gas will pour in. In less than half an hour, all the people inside died, and the next group of victims were ready to enter. At the same time, the bodies were taken out of another exit by a group of Jewish prisoners called task force and directly pushed into the incinerator. " When Nina told me about it, she didn't know whether it was because of excitement or fear. Her whole body kept shaking slightly.

When Nina finished, I stopped. Seeing that I didn't go any further, Nina stopped and asked curiously, "Rita, why are you late? It's far away from where we live."

"Nina," I said to her decisively after thinking for a moment, "I have other things to do today, so I won't come to you for the time being. I will go to other places recently. If I need your help, I will come to you With that, I reached out to her and said in a friendly way, "let's part now, my good friend!"

After separating from Nina and them, I didn't even change my clothes and went straight to the headquarters of the front army. At the door, the soldier on guard didn't recognize me in civilian clothes immediately. The officer on duty stopped me and asked politely, "this girl, what's the matter with you here?"

"I'm o'shanina," I immediately identified myself and took out my ID card to wave at the other side. "I have something urgent to see the commander."

The officer quickly stepped aside and made way for me. When I passed him quickly, I heard him remind me in the back: "Comrade deputy commander, commander and chief of staff are in the headquarters."

I walked into the headquarters and saw rokosovsky and malining, as well as several combat staff, discussing something around the map. Hearing the sound of my hasty footsteps, rokosovsky turned to look over. When he saw clearly that it was me, he could not help asking curiously, "Rita, how do you wear casual clothes? Did you just come back from somewhere?"

With these words, without waiting for me to say anything, he turned to the staff who had stood upright at the table and said, "OK, it's settled. Go back and carry out it immediately."

The staff agreed to turn around and leave. Rokosovsky raised his hand to the empty seat beside him, motioned me to sit down, and then asked, "Rita, what's the matter with you in such a hurry?"

"Comrade marshal," I asked eagerly as soon as I hung my satchel on the back of my chair, "what's the matter with the maydanek concentration camp?"

"Maydanek concentration camp?" After rokosovsky repeated the ground, the expression on his face became serious: "our army liberated this concentration camp in late July. What witnesses told me is unforgettable for me forever. The bandits killed about 1.5 million people in this concentration camp, including a large number of old people, women and children. The brutality they committed in the concentration camp is the most serious crime against humanity. "

I was shocked to hear that almost 1.5 million people were killed in the maydanek concentration camp. Just as I was tongue tied and speechless, marinin came over and asked me curiously, "Rita, do you want to know something about this concentration camp?"

After seeing me nod my head in affirmation, malining began to tell me about this concentration camp: "idanec concentration camp is four kilometers southeast of Lublin. The purpose of the camp was to eliminate the enemies of the Third Reich, to assist in the extermination of Jews, and to participate in the expulsion and "resettlement" of poles living in the zamoshic area of the ordinary government.

Maydanek camp covers 667 acres and is located on the road connecting Lublin, zamoshic and haium. Surrounded by double barbed wire with high-voltage electricity and 19 watchtowers, soldiers stood guard in the tower in case of escape. The camp consists of five parts: 22 cells, seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows, a small incinerator and other indispensable buildings, such as storeroom, workshop, laundry room and coal storeroom.

The camp was established in September 1941, and the first prisoners arrived in maydanek in October. Over the next two and a half years, groups of prisoners followed, including those from the Soviet POW camps and those from other concentration camps, such as Saxony hausen, Buchenwald, dahoe, Auschwitz, noingamer and flosenberg.

Other prisoners in the camp include Polish civilians who were searched by the Germans or previously imprisoned in other places; Jews in Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Belgium and Greece; Non Jews in Belarus and Ukraine; Polish farmers driven out of their homes in the zamoshic region. After the Warsaw gedu uprising in April 1943, tens of thousands of Jews were expelled from Warsaw to maydanek. In August 1943, after the partition of biavistock was cleared, thousands of Jews were sent here as well. "

After waiting patiently for malining to finish these boring data, rokosovsky asked me curiously, "Rita, how can you suddenly think of asking about this concentration camp?"

"Comrade marshal, this is the situation." I quickly reported to rokosowski about a group of beggars I met on the road today. Finally, I said, "I just asked, since we have rescued them from the clutches of the Germans, why don't we arrange them properly and provide them with the necessary food and water? Can't the survivors of these death camps starve to death? "

"You don't know something, Rita. We have our own problems." Rokosovsky sighed and said: "after careful screening, we found that most people's hometown is still in the enemy occupied area. If we send them back rashly, it is tantamount to letting them die.

We left them in the concentration camp and left a small number of troops to guard them, but there was no restriction on their freedom. They were free to go in and out of the concentration camp, otherwise you would not see them in the streets of Lublin. "

In his words, I can only mention once more why the survivors of the concentration camp were not provided with food and water: "if they had enough food and water, they would not come to Lublin to beg."

"Rita, you missed the marshal." Malining recognized the dissatisfaction from my words and quickly explained to me: "the task of relieving these Jews has always been the responsibility of the new Polish government. We provide them with a lot of food every day. As for why these things didn't fall into the hands of the Jews, it's not easy to guess. "

When I found out that the survivors from the maydanek concentration camp were reduced to begging in Lublin street, which was not the reason for rokosovsky, I realized that I had missed the other side. I blushed and said to rokosovsky, "I'm sorry, marshal. I blame you wrong!"

Rokosovsky waved his hand and said magnanimously, "it's OK, Rita. You haven't made clear the specific situation. It's inevitable to have misunderstandings." He stopped for a moment, then continued, "when our army approached the maydanek concentration camp in July. In order to cover up their crimes, the German burned the great incinerator and other buildings. However, in a hurry to leave the camp, they forgot to destroy most of the cells and gas chambers.

Our army liberated the maydanek concentration camp on July 24, and unexpectedly found that there were still seven or eight hundred surviving prisoners in it. In addition to the fact that most of them are Jews, there are about 50 other prisoners of our army. "

It is said that there are still dozens of our army's captured commanders and fighters left in the concentration camp. I can't help but have a flash in my eyes, "Comrade marshal, where are these captured commanders and fighters?"

"Where else, in the maydanek camp, of course." Rokosovsky said with some regret: "I have met these people. They are all as thin as skeletons, as if they would fall when the wind blows. Seeing them like this, I gave up my plan to add them to the army. "

In order to find out how these captured soldiers survived, I continued to ask rokosovsky, "do you know how they survived, marshal?"

"These people were selected by the * * to take the bodies in the gas room to the incinerator." Malining said coldly: "in order to prevent the leakage of secrets, the German will change a group of task forces every once in a while, and the replaced people will be directly sent to the gas chamber. They were lucky. The Germans were so flustered when they ran away that they forgot them. "

After malining finished, I asked cautiously, "I want to ask the guards of the concentration camp who were caught by us how to deal with them?" Malining said in an official voice: "if we change the past, these captured guards will be directly shot. However, because there are a large number of allied journalists in the concentration camp to cover, we can only lock up these prisoners first, and then continue to try them after the war is over, and judge them according to their crimes. " After hearing what marinin said, I knew in my heart that most of the guards in the maydanek concentration camp could escape death and be sentenced to life imprisonment at most. Only a few unfortunate people will be sentenced to be shot or hanged in the end“ Rita, in a few days, you are going to command the troops to attack China. I suggest you go to see the surviving prisoners of war, "rokosovsky suggested to me." maybe these can be used for many purposes in the next battle. " As for the proposal put forward by rokosovsky, I hesitated to reply: "marshal, don't you say they are so skinny that even the gust of wind can blow them down? How can such a person go to war? "“ You can put them into the army first, and when their bodies return to their ideal state, you can let them take part in the battle. " "These people have been tortured in the concentration camp of the Communist Party of China, so they are ready to go to any dangerous place, where they can retaliate against the hateful enemy, they are willing to go," rokosovsky stressed I very much agree with rokosovsky's view that with the advance of our army to Berlin, more and more concentration camps and prisoner's camps will be liberated by us. It would be outrageous if tens of thousands of prisoners of war were not incorporated into the army. So I said decisively, "marshal, please make arrangements for me. I want to go to maydanek concentration camp immediately and talk to these surviving soldiers."